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He has current oil < Acct 230 Wed Apr 30 Thu May 1 Sat May 3 Sun May 4 remained on good terms with his Brat Pack- barrels a da; 7pm-10pm 7pm-10pm lOam-lpm lOam-lpm era co-stars, as well as his mentors: Francis At the Biol 113 Ford Coppola, who celebrated Dillon’s Ch. Review Organ izatio brooding teenage handsomeness in “The Johnson/ Wed Apr 30 Exporting < 8pni-10pni You can now buy Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish,” and Gus Rizzo surprising s tickets online at Van Sant, who directed him in his first Biol 113 raising its o Final Review Final Review www.4.0andGo.com mature role, in “Drugstore Cowboy.” Johnson/ Sun May 4 Tue May 6 to 25.4 m When he got his chance behind the cam­ 4pm-7pm 6pm-9pm and avoid standing in 1900.000 bar Rizzo era, Dillon set out to capture a different ticket lines existing ceil Biol 114 Ch. Review kind of landscape, one that has scarcely : The chan Craven/ Wed Apr 30 been seen in movies in 40 years. “City of 1,0PEC Prt 5pm-7pm Ghosts,” his debut as a director, explores Schroeter Hamad Al-A Cambodia — from its war-ravaged capital, Biol 114 Final Review Final Review The grot Phnom Penh, and its ancient temples, to a Craven/ Thu May 1 Mon May 5 bers pump ; netherworld of Western expatriates. Though Schroeter 4pm-7pm 6pm-9pm You can now buy world's oi tickets online at Dillon is the film’s lead, he gives ample Test Review |decision at ; Econ 202 screen time to veteran international stars Thu May 1 www.4.0andGo.com ference at it Stellan Skarsgard, Gerard Depardieu and House lpm-4pm and avoid standing in left some James Caan. Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 ticket lines bewildered. Econ 203 Mon Apr 28 Tue Apr 29 “It was a wild, unstable place,” he said, The anne Edwardson lOpm-lam lOpm-lam ■I “but it also had a magical, spiritual quality, three hours expats -American, Australian, .NcwAlatcml. that aimed ; Econ 203 Only! European-and everybody seemed to be on then decline Nelson Fri May 2 the lam in some way. Maybe not from the prices hav 6pm-9pm law, but running from something.” He said Matt Dillon has taken on the role of director with his new movie "City of Ghosts.’ almost $40 Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 he wasn’t surprised to read that some of the Econ 203 crude befor Sat May 3 Sun May 4 world’s most wanted criminals were resistance from financiers, Dillon’s screen Outsiders,” Dillon sought out nonmain- about $25 W’esterfkld lpm-4pm 1 pin-4pm You can now buy thought to be in Cambodia. image wouldn’t convince anyone that he stream roles, notes Pulver. “With OPEC fearei Part 1 of2 Part 2 of 2 tickets online at If Dillon himself was escaping some­ was a quick study. From the leather-jacket­ "Drugstore Cowboy,’ he showed he’d rat didn’t rein i Econ 322 Wed Apr 30 Thu May 1 www.4.0andGo.com thing, perhaps it was his own fame; in ed juvenile delinquent roles of his teens to matured far beyond those early roles, ami oversupply lOpm-lam lOpm-lam and avoid standing in much of Southeast Asia, nobody knew or his genially clueless characters in “Singles,” beyond many actors of his age group, demand reac Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 cared that he was an actor. ticket lines “To Die For” and “There’s Something said. “And the fact that he was abletoa The grou Engr212 Wed Apr 30 Tue Apr 29 Much of what he saw during his travels About Mary,” Dillon has usually been cast rize, in ‘Singles’ and 'There’s Somethin: tion cut larg 5pm-8pm 6pni-9pm —decaying French colonial hotels and as a hunky but dim hero. About Mary,’ that aura of slackjaw was sluggi; Test Review resorts, seedy bars, and jungle-canopied Fine 201 That image has dogged him for years: during the s Sun Apr 27 temples —seemed to him to have come out he’d once projected, was really smartof Hood Interviewers have had a hard time avoiding slowdown h; 9pm-J2am of a story by Joseph Conrad, say, or John him.” Pulver credits Dillon for “seeking the subject of the actor’s looks (no matter by the outbn Part lof3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3 Le Carre. The moody 1951 Carol Reed reasonably classy actor-driven projects Fine 309 what movie he’s in, he seems to be wearing Respiratory W'ed Apr 30 Thu May 1 Sat May 3 movie based on Conrad’s “Outcast of the interesting directors.” Jovner Al-Attiyah : 7pm-10pm 7pm-9pm 2pm-3pm a tight, white sleeveless undershirt) and his Dillon’s career progressed through Ik Islands,” about Westerners getting decadent crude demai Part 1 of 4 Part 2 of 4 Part 3 of 4 Part 4 of 4 private life. He is, famously, the ex­ 1990s with unflashy, sometimes critical Fine 341 in the East, also occurred to Dillon. rels a day. Wed Apr 30 Thu May I Sat May 3 Sun May 4 “I thought it would be a refreshing and boyfriend of Cameron Diaz and several hailed performances in independentfili Jovner OPEC p 7pm-10pm 7pm-9pm 3pm-5pm 7pm-I0pm unique setting for a movie,” he said of fashion models. He directed some music videos forftieiil decision wh Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 Cambodia. “The first idea was: A young But to focus only on those aspects is to and more important, according to him. Info 303 gloss over more interesting points. Here’s June 11 in C Mon May 5 Tue May 6 con man pays an unexpected visit to a remained close to a network of creative Anthonv an actor who cites Spencer Tracy and Gene “We fee 9pm-12am 6pm-9pm friend who’s into some shady business in people in New York City. Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3 Hackman as influences, and a director who another cut i Info 303 Cambodia.” “I’m from Westchester, and I consider Fri May 2 Sat May 3 Sun May 4 hopes to emulate not Quentin Tarantino, but said. “We w Stein To realize the idea, he called on a friend, myself a New Yorker,” says Dillon. “Thi 9pm-11 pm 12pm-3pm 12pm-3pm Coppola, Federico Fellini and “any 1970s very careful! Barry Gifford, the novelist and screenwriter has always been my home.” Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3 director who likes dream sequences. Very the market r< Info 305 (“Wild at Heart”). “I’d never worked with Through a writer friend, he met“0z" Sat May 3 Sun May 4 Mon May 5 him before, but we liked the same books,” unfashionable.” The mark Buffa 3pm-6pm 3pm-6pm 6pin-9pm producer Tom Fontana, who asked himte Dillon said. “He’s interested in the under­ Still, the cover-boy issue persists. was to shave Part 1 of3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3 direct an episode of the HBO prison drat. Info 364 belly of things.” “Matt Dillon’s moody rebel image was the price of Sat May 3 Sun May 4 Tue May 6 To Fontana, hiring a first-time actor-i traders app Anthony For four years, the two collaborated on probably defined by those hysterical teenage 4pm-7pm 4pm-7pm 6pm-9pm director was not a risk; Kathy Bates,® that OPEC the script and shopped for financing. They melodramas, ‘Rumble Fish’ and ‘The Test Review Outsiders,”’ says Andrew Pulver, film editor Palminteri and Steve Buscemi had all crude avails Info 364 ran up against two big obstacles. The first Wed Apr 30 of England’s Guardian newspaper and co­ worked on “Oz.” Stein was a practical concern: he last Hollywood lpm-4pm author of the book “Brat Pack Confidential,” “One thing that’s good about actors movie to be filmed mainly in Cambodia Part 1 of 4 Part 2 of 4 Part 3 of 4 Part 4 or 4 which devotes a chapter to Dillon. “The becoming directors is that they speak the Math 141/166 Mon Apr 28 Tue Apr 29 Wed Apr 30 Thu May 1 was “Lord Jim,” in 1964. The country only main thing about him in those movies was same language as the cast, and that cutsf 7pm-10pm 8pm-10pm 4pm-7pm 4pm-7pm recently opened up again to Western film­ that he was very good-looking, with an inar­ a lot of extra discussion,” Fontana said Iceland Part 1 of 4 Part 2 of 4 Part 3 of 4 Part 4 of 4 makers; 200l’s “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” ticulateness that fit those characters. “They can discuss things as peers.” REYKJAVIK, Math 142 Mon Apr 28 Tue Apr 29 Wed Apr 30 Thu May 1 made brief but spectacular use of the “Unfortunately, that meant that he had Dillon, he says, arrived at work will world's first f 10pni-12am 6pm-8pm 7pm-10pm lpm-4pm Angkor Wat temples. one note as an actor, being a brooding guy “the best attitude a director can have, h - the next st Part 1 of 4 Part 2 of 4 Part 3 of 4 Part 4 of 4 “Nobody wanted to make this film, and who couldn’t quite say what was on his had a lot of great ideas, and also the ini The first ca Math 151 Mon Apr 28 Tue Apr 29 Wed Apr 30 Thu May I they certainly didn’t want to make it in mind. But it was perfect for the teen movies gence to listen to people. You want some’ provided unc 5pm-7pm 10pm-12am 10pm-1 am 7pm-10pm Cambodia,” Dillon said. “There’s no infra­ of that time.” one who will be practical and say, ‘This a test for hyd Part 1 of 4 Part 2 of 4 Part 3 of 4 Part 4 of 4 structure for filmmaking there.” Other critics saw him as a throwback to isn’t working. Let’s try something else.1' There were Math 152 Mon Apr 28 Tue Apr 29 Wed Apr 30 Thu May 1 Studios were also resistant to the idea of the iconic actors of the 1950s, like James If there are more details, he won’t shi 280,000 peo 3pm-5pm 12am-2am 2pm-4pm lOam-lpm Dillon being director, co-writer and star. Dean and Montgomery Clift, who gave them. Instead, he indicates the ebony and new station \ Mgmt 209 Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3 “Everything gets used against you,” he said. intense, emotional performances that sug­ gold amulet. buses being Sat May 3 Sun May 4 Mon May 5 Swim “That you are a first-time director - that’s gested a real-life inner turmoil. Indeed, The way the hands are positioned, in August. Ea 12pm-2pm 2pm-4pm 6pm-9pin one strike. It didn’t seem to matter that as Dillon studied with Lee Strasberg and idol­ supposed to protect you from fear. 1c "In time, w Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3 Mgmt 211 an actor you spend so much time on film ized Clift, A1 Pacino and Robert De Niro. n’t wear it while we were filming,bit world that hy Sun May 4 Mon May 5 Tue May 6 Unlike Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio and put it on afterward and I haven’t taken it to a cleaner, Swim 5pm-7pm 9pm-llpm 6pm-9pm sets that you are always learning.” n I Though any actor might face the same Emilio Estevez, who also appeared in “The off since.” Sverrisdottir: Mgmt Test Review iMlillii I 1 309/363 Tue Apr 29 lllllBili Abelson 6pm-9pm Check out our web page Mktg 309 Test Review immmem Mon May 5 Pride at lOpm-lam Health and Kinesiology wwwAOandGo.com Review racket Dance Mktg 309 Only! Robertson Mon Apr 28 4pm-7pm

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